Lamine Yamal

I mean, honestly.

I, I suppose Lamine Yamal takes it well, but if the wall just stays together, it hits somebody in the chest, it did not.

Oh, no.

That was a wall with a serious crack in it, for sure.

Well, Barcelona once again with a big, big win, and if you just have a look at the stats.

That's a lot of arrows.

That's a lot of arrows, and it's all about Barcelona because not only can they attack from the one person that we thought would be Lamine Yamal, it is Raphinha, it is Araujo, it is pretty much everywhere, and you can just see the absolute variety in their attack.

And if you don't wanna trust me, listen to what Hansi Flick had to say about it after the game.

Obviously, he can be someone who is a bit more narrow outside the box, but then definitely starts influencing the box as soon as the play kind of moves forward.

Now, Raphinha, second striker, whatever you wanna call him, now the, the big difference I wanna show you is his relationship with Lamine Yamal and actually the center forward as well.

I've put obviously Adeyemi here, but, uh, that, this can be whoever you wanna be.

It can be Ferran Torres or Lewandowski, just use your imagination, uh, for this, for this scenario right here.

Um, and what I wanna show you is just at a sequence in which Barca get the ball to Lamine Yamal, and naturally what happens with Lamine and his gravity, and we know this already, um, teams will try and double up on Lamine and on, on, on this flank right here.

But whenever you have a- ... players doubling up a certain attacker, that means a space will appear somewhere else.

And Barca's goal was always to kind of find Raphinha in these, or and the striker in, in, in the box obviously.

And the main thing that has changed now with Raphinha being the left wing and Raphinha being the center forward is the distances, right? If you look at Lamine Yamal having to access Raphinha all the way on the other side, or maybe even Olmo having to access Raphinha, the distance is always gonna be greater.

Mm-hmm.

With Yamal off the right.

Use Adami off the left who scored a, the gorgeous goal as well.

It was-

... they're great to watch, man.

Yeah.

And Raphinha and Yamal alone could beat anybody.

Yamal was doing some disgusting bits.

And also, I think I should be clear in saying as well that while I love our club, there is a certain flaw of players that talk about the Ballon d'Or.

Like, you got your Lamine Yamal, your Kylian Mbappés.

Mm-hmm.

Like, they wake up saying, "I wanna win it."

Yeah.

So our, our club, our club really isn't a, a Ballon d'Or team.

And we might not ever have a player that gets considered in the top three of the Ballon d'Or because they're not Lamine Yamal.

Yeah.

It's a fierce competition.

Lamine Yamal on the enclave of the Euro Awards.

Sotu Pau Kubasi.

And I wonder just how close Ayub Wadi might come.

they actually look They actually look really good this season.

Because if you notice, the last few seasons, when the season starts, everybody always looks at, oh yeah, Lamin Yamal this, Lamin Yamal that.

You know what I mean? Now, the team is better even without him.

The team is so good even without

That's how long it took for Rafinha to beat Jack Ernst and open the scoring for Barcelona against Feyenoord.

It was always going to be a tough task for Feyenoord in Come Now and they ended up going down 5-1 with Rafinha scoring twice and Lamine Yamal claiming a goal and two assists.

Feyenoord's response was a goal by Sem Steyn when they were 4-0 down, although they were They were very harshly denied by the VAR when Nacho Ferri converted Luciano Valente's splendid pass, but Valente's big toe was deemed to have crept offside.

Feyenoord's players were pretty upbeat afterwards.

He showed, especially under Enzo Maresca, that he can get forward.

He was our leading scorer at one point, while also playing solid defense against the likes of Lamin Yamal, Bakayo Saka, who's...

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.